exlviii Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal ("Dec, 1916. 



Babu Manahar Lai, Barrackpur. 



Capt. V. B. Nesfield. I.M.S. ; Banda. 



Babu Jyoti Prakas Nandi, Burdwan. 



Babu Surendra Chandra Rai Chaudhuri, Rungpur. 



Babu Girindra Kumar Sen, Calcutta. 



Sved Fida \\i, Arrah. 



Babu Sri Rara Poplai, Jullundur City. 



Kumar Shyma Kumar Tagore, Calcutta. 



The following gentleman was balloted for and elected an 

 Honorary Fellow : — 



Dr. G. A. Boulenger, F.R.S., LL.D., British Museum. 



r, a - The i l°} l0V L hlg £ entlemen were balloted for and elected 

 Ordinary IViembers : — 



The Anagarika Dharmapala, General Secretary Mohabodhi 

 Society, No. 4a College Square. Calcutta (for re-election), pro- 

 posed by Dr. Satis Chandra Vidvabhusana. seconded bv Maha- 

 mahopadhyaya Haraprasad Shastri ; Sri Baman Dasji Kaviraj. 

 Ayurvedic and Unani Physician, 152, Harrison Road, Calcutta, 

 proposed by Dr. Satis Chandra Vidyabhusana. seconded bv 

 Dr. F. H. Gravely. 



Maulavi Aga Muhammad Shirazi on behalf of Dr. A. Suhra- 

 wardy read the fo lowing obituary notice of the late Shams-ul- 

 Ulama Shaikh Mahmud Gilani :— 



The death of His Eminence Shamsul-Ulama Shaikh Mah- 

 mud Gilani removes a prominent figure from the Muslim world 



AT AftPrQ CinH AW^n^n 1- _ 1 - 1 • 



an lr- 



of letters and oriental scholarship once more suffers 

 reparable loss. 



, S^ikh Mahmud Gilani was 'the fifth son of Shaikh Nasir 

 uddin Gilani the renowned Mujtatnd of Persia. On account of 



S? i f . i! * m ^ hich Shaikh Nasiruddin Gilani was held, 



Shah Muhammad, the premier nobleman of Gilan, gave his 

 daughteT in marriage to him. Six sons were born of this mar- 

 iage ; of whom Shaikh Abdullah and Shaikh Muhamud attained 

 tame outside Persia. 



person 



°™., } h * noblest famuies of Persia, Shaikh Mahmud came 

 IW M t0 f^ m US J° A Ut \ af ter a dtatingutahed career in 

 ne^^H t. P T.i^ Ambia - Whilst in Calcutta he was 

 E?f^° aco ?P t «» Position of the spiritual head of the 

 bhaikh community. The Board of ff vam L„ t^ w,n:„™ 



William 



havina ™rv,<> f~ i i . . "^ ui examiners, ±<ort wuiiam, 



appointment of Persian Instructor t.r> *fc« t*^a „,u;„u u a 



Instructor to the Board, which he 



whc ™ nn Tl y - ^ lat ? Mar( l uis of D «^rin and Ava. 



ihAitle o 5L ffJF* °l the Shaikh " conferred upon him 

 the title of Shamsul I lama (the SU n of the Ulama). He was 



the 

 Ava. 



